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Archivematica 1.2.0

Released September X, 2014

New features

• Sponsored (Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries) For COPPUL hosting functionality at Bronze level, ability to process through to Transfer backlog only
• Sponsored (SFU Archives) SIP Arrangement - Create one or more SIPs from one or more transfers in the Ingest tab Transfer and SIP creation - #1726, #1571, #1713, #1035, #6022
  • does not support taking content out of a SIP once it's been moved to the SIP arrangement panel
• Sponsored (Harvard Business School Library) Directory printer - See requirements Directory printer for recording original order
• Sponsored (Harvard Business School Library) OCR - See requirements OCR text in DIP
• Sponsored (Harvard Business School Library) Store DIP - See requirements Store DIP
• Sponsored (Yale University Libraries) Forensic disk image ingest #5037, #5356, #5900
• Sponsored includes identification and flagging of personal information in transfers, as well as other bulk extractor reporting functions
• Add ability to configure Characterization commands via FPR https://github.com/artefactual/archivematica/pull/6
• Add verification command micro-service (verify frame-level fixity and lossless compression) #6501
• Improvements to transfer start #6220Scalability: Add nailgun (improve performance of java tools like FITS)
• View pointer files from Archival Storage and Storage Service
• Improvements to file identification metadata in METS #
• Include TIKA #5027 and DROID in packages so FPR can be configured to use them as identification tools
• Include MediaInfo, Exiftool and framemd5 (maybe ffprobe) for characterization and metadata extraction instead of FITS #5034
• Support Dublin Core metadata in JSON (as well as csv, which was already supported) https://github.com/artefactual/archivematica/pull/14
• Updated FIDO with the most recent PRONOM IDs, released just last week!

Archivematica 1.2.0 runs with a new version of the Storage Service, 0.4.0.

New and Updated Dependencies

new

• bulk_extractor 1.4.4 http://digitalcorpora.org/downloads/bulk_extractor/
• MediaInfo 0.7.52
• nailgun 0.9.1 http://www.martiansoftware.com/nailgun/
• sleuthkit 4.1.3 http://www.sleuthkit.org/sleuthkit/download.php
• unar 1.8.1 http://unarchiver.c3.cx/commandline
• Tesseract 3.02 https://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/

updated:

• bagit 4.9.0 https://github.com/LibraryOfCongress/bagit-java/releases
• exiftool 9.6.0
• ffmpeg 2.3 https://www.ffmpeg.org/download.html#releases
• fido 1.3.1.77 https://github.com/openplanets/fido/tree/1.3.1-77
• fits 0.8.0 http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/fits/downloads
• ImageMagick 6.6.9-7 http://www.imagemagick.org

Storage Service 0.3.0

Released April 10th, 2014

Includes backend enhancements and API-level changes only, with no direct user facing changes

• Sponsored (University of Alberta) Dataset preservation
  • Sponsored Add support for AIC's https://github.com/artefactual/archivematica-storage-service/pull/2
• Improved unicode support https://github.com/artefactual/archivematica-storage-service/pull/3
• v2 of internal REST API (the API used by the Dashboard) and update documentation
• Storage Service now supports updating - no longer necessary to reinstall to upgrade https://github.com/artefactual/archivematica-storage-service/pull/6

Archivematica 1.1

Released May 2, 2014

New features

• Sponsored (University of Alberta) Dataset preservation
  • Sponsored creation and management of AICs #5802
  • Sponsored AIP pointer file #5159
  • Sponsored pointer file tracks multi-AIP relationships
  • Sponsored pointer file includes compression information and other metadata required to find and process (e.g. open) AIP
• Sponsored (University of Alberta) Enhancements to manual normalization workflow
  • Sponsored ability to add PREMIS event detail information for manually normalized files via the dashboard #5216 User Manual - Adding PREMIS eventDetail for manual normalization
• Backend/Not user-facing:
  • Improved unicode support https://github.com/artefactual/archivematica/pull/17
  • Better handling of preconfigured choices (processingMCP.xml)
  • More choices in processing archive file formats (extra preconfigured choices)
  • Improved handling of unit variables (passing parameters between micro-services)
  • Update to FITS 0.8.0 (or newer if available)
  • Update to ElasticSearch 0.90.13
  • Security fix (avoid invoking subshell when running micro-services) https://github.com/artefactual/archivematica/pull/16
  • File identification in mets is now from file id tool and not FITS https://github.com/artefactual/archivematica/pull/15

Bug fixes and enhancements

• bug fixes

Archivematica 1.0

Release for public testing: September 2013 Package release: January 2014

New features

• Format Policy Registry (FPR) improvements including
  • Ability to add/change format policies in the dashboard
  • Ability to update the local FPR from fpr.archivematica.org
  • Upload and report performance stats to FPR
  • For detailed information about the FPR, see Administrator manual--FPR
• Generation of "fail" reports in the administrative tab of the dashboard
• Eliminate unused interface options (e.g. DSpace transfer, CONTENTdm upload, ICA-AtoM upload) via the administrative tab of the dashboard
• DIP upload to Archivist Toolkit Archivists Toolkit integration with a metadata entry gui in the dashboard and actionable PREMIS rights
• AIP pointer file
• Storage service with API
• Ability to request to delete an AIP via the dashboard
• Upgraded to FITS 0.62
• Ability for multiple pipelines to write to a shared ElasticSearch index and to the same AIP store(s) (i.e. multiple dept's -> one institution)
• Further scalability testing/prototyping and improved documentation

Bug fixes and enhancements

• bug fixes